hmm I thought I wouldn't need any specific wm :-/ currently I start X
only with mythfrontend in my ~/.xinitrc. So you're saying I should try
starting a wm before running mythfrontend?
thanks,
seb.
john roberts schrieb:
>This has happened to me when I run a desktop other then KDE. I run fluxbox sometimes (very light-weight) and it prevents me from using some external apps because I lose "focus" on the new app.
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sebastian Heuer <seb at belanur.de>
>Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:31:37 +0200
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: [mythtv-users] no keyboard within externel applications
>>>>>hi all,
>>>>I just started builid a myth tv box, mainly for testing purpose. it's a
>>pentium III 1ghz with 256mb of ram and a geforce 3 running unter gentoo
>>2004.2 with kernel 2.6.8 and mythtv 0.15 (latest version from the
>>portage tree).
>>>>Most things work just fine, but when mythfrontend starts an external
>>application like mplayer for playing a video, the keyboard doesn't work
>>anymore. Same with xmame :( I have to change to another console (which
>>still works), and kill the external program, so mythtv comes back to
>>focus. At that point my keyboard works fine again...
>>>>any clues?
>>>>thanks in advance,
>>>>sebastian heuer
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